Open Source / GPL

Zenoss today announced one-year anniversary of its open source project on SourceForge. The Zenoss project was launched under the GNU Public License in February 2006 with the mission of simplifying…

Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only winner in a federal jury's $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression…

The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) organization is sponsoring a new open-source license intended for hardware components. Authored by lawyer John Ackermann, the Open Hardware License (OHL) is…

Alfresco, a start-up that commercializes open-source software for helping customers keep track of their digital documents, has adopted the General Public License in an effort to attract outside…

Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced General Availability of Pentaho’s new Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)…

OpenMedSpel is a open source medical spelling word list that is released under a GPL license. OpenMedSpel was derived from the word lists complied for MedSpel, a shareware medical spelling tool…

The South African Cabinet today announced that it had approved a free and open source strategy and that government would migrate its current software to free and open source software.

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Open source discussion has moved from Linux to innovation happening beyond the popular operating system. Open source models are flourishing in CRM (SugarCRM – www.sugarcrm.com), Messaging (Scalix…

Cisco has performed an abrupt U-turn and will not now be releasing ts NAC client software code to the open source community. Earlier this month, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of the company's Security…

Theory versus practice - I don't think there’s a better solution in making sure that software developers are ready for the challenges of tomorrow than catching them while they are still in school…